International workshop on testing distributed component-based systems

This summary reports on the one-day Workshop on Testing Distributed Componem-Based Systems (TDCS) that took place in affiliation with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in Los Angeles in May 1999. The workshop dealt with new advances m test methods and test technologies for the emerging class of &stributed component-based systems that are built on basis of middleware software like COM, CORBA, or Java RMI, including syslems comprising Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components The around thirty workshop attendees discussed what efforts m software technology and research are required to cope with testing such systems. Twelve papers out of nineteen submissions were presented.